Maya Angelou

Qui-Anna Brown
Mrs. Weinberg/ 663
19 February 2014
Maya Angelou Life Maya Angelou was born on April 4TH 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was raised in Missouri as well as in Stamps, Arkansas she experienced cruel racism. She also experienced many traumatizing events that led to her uncommunicativeness as a young girl. However, with the help of a teacher she was able to learn to express herself and love words. She became a wonderful and exstrodenary woman who the people inspire and love her words of wiz them. EDUCATION: Maya Angelou and her brother Bailey had attend to a public school in Arkansas and California. She study dance with Martha Graham and drama with Frank Sliver FAMILY LIFE: Maya has a brother named bailey, at the age of 4 her mother sent them to live with her pious grandmother rural Stamps Arkansas because her parents were getting divorce and she didn’t want them to know what was going on. AT the age of 8 she was rape by her mother boyfriend this expire to write” I know why the cage birds sing which recalls a young African American women discovery of her self-confidence. (Maya Angelo (1928 ) Contribution: Maya Angelou was an author , poet ,playwright stage and screen performer and director she had become san Francisco first female streetcar conductor .In the early 1960s,Angelou lived in Egypt where she was the associate editor of the Arab observer in Cairo. Maya Angelou had a successful career , Angelou worked as writer-produced for 20th century-fox television. she wrote produced and hosted the net public broad casting series Black Blues Black also co- starred in the motion picture how to make an American quilt in 1995. She also taught several American colleges and universities (of California at los angles ,the kanas ,Wichita state , and California state university at Sacramento. The early 1980s, she has been Reynolds professor and writer –in-residence at Wake Forest University.
. she had study with Frank Sliver. Maya went off to a career in too theater ,she was well known as her five autobiography works .Maya love to write poet( just give me a cool drink of water ‘for I die(1971);oh prays my wings are going to fit me well(1975);and still I rise (1976) why don’t you sing(1983)poems(1986);life doesn’t frighten me, on the pulse of the morning (1993)soul look back in wonder (1994)and I shall not be moved(1997).…...

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents 2
Introduction 3
Reasons for Choosing Maya Angelou 3
Early Life 4
Educational Life 5
Angelou’s Influence in her Early Career 5
Angelou’s Influence in Africa 6
Angelou’s Career Peak 7
Later Career 7
Qualities That Make Angelou A Great Leader 8
Analysis of Angelou’s Leadership Style 9
Application of Angelou’s Leadership Style to Hospitality Industry 9
Leadership Lesson on Angelou Essential for Hospitality Industry 10
The value of versatility 10
The Value of Spirituality 10
Introspection value 11
Conclusion 11
References 12
Introduction
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...grandmother, Annie. As children they shared a very close relationship, and was given the nickname “Maya” by her brother. They moved back to Chicago in 1935 to live with their mother. And was raped at age seven by her mother’s boyfriend. She was very traumatized about this and did not want to talk about it. Her uncle found out and killed the man . Due to this incident Maya was withdrawn from society and remained silent.
In 1944 she dropped out of high school and worked as the first Black cable conductor in San Francisco. Maya decided to go back to school and graduated from Mission High school becomes a single mom, with birth of her son Guy at the age of sixteen. In order to have money to support her son and herself she performs at the Purple Onion nightclub in San Francisco and adopts the name Maya Angelou when she married Tosh Angelos. Maya started to read work by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar were her inspirations to write. Her lyrics, which turned into poetry and short stories and her singing career succeeds to Brooklyn, New York, to join the Harlem Writers Guild. In 1960 Maya Becomes the Northeaster Regional Coordinator for Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She Appeared in a Broadway play, "The Blacks“. She directs and performs in "Cabaret for Freedom", which she writes with comedian Godfrey Cambridge.
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...reading Maya Angelou's peom "And Still I Rise" and then watching her read it. Maya Angelou was born April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. Maya Angelou was raised in St. louis, MO and also Stamps Arkansas where she had to exsperience racial discrimination that was common during this time. Maya Angelou is one of the most influential voices of our times. She is a global renaissance woman. When I read Maya Angelou's poem it touched me in a very deep way. As I read the poem the meaning that I got from it was that she was speaking of a woman that had to exspreience hard time and was maybe put through some difficult situations. However through it all she did not let it hold her back or cause her to be a negative and bitter person. Maya Angelou's words are very inspirational. I also watched Maya Angelou read the poeam "And I Still Rise". Listening to her read it really changed it a lot it seemed as if the poem was much more deep and meaningful. The words and still I rise was much more powerful when I listened to her read the poem. I believe that people enjoyed reading and listening to Maya Angelou because she spoke so deeply and knowledable. She was a very smart woman who's poems reached all audiences. Her poems are very clear in words which meant they are easyly understood. Maya Angelou exprenced a lot as a child and young adult she had to deal with the rasicism the followed during her early years and even being raped by her mothers boyfriend. I believe that Maya Angelou wrote......

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...Maya Angelou, born April 4th 1928, grew up with a lot of challenges she had to face in life. At a young age, her parents’ marriage was broken and she was forced to live with her grandmother. While living with her grandmother, she was faced with prejudice and racial discrimination. A few years later her father popped up in her life and sent her to live with her mother, where a couple of years went by and she was being abused by her mother’s boyfriend. Maya told her family and that man was put in jail for only one day. He was beaten to death a few days after being released from jail, which caused her to become mute for almost 5 years.
I think that with everything Maya Angelou has been through, so far in her life, if she was not a strong enough person, she probably would have drowned herself in sorrow and punished herself for all that has happened in her life. Instead, she moved back to Stamps, where her grandmother lived, and began to meet with Ms. Bertha Flowers, who was a family friend and teacher. Ms. Flowers helped Maya with literature, art, and managed to help Maya find her voice again.
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Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou's former name was Marguerite Ann Johnson. Maya got the nickname from her older brother Bailey, who had a speech issue and could not pronounce Marguerite (Longly, 2013). He started calling her Maya because he read a book on Mayan indians, and the name stuck. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture (Angelou, 2012). Growing up in Stamps, AK, Angelou learned what it was like to be a black girl in a world whose boundaries were set by whites (Longly, 2013). As a child, she always dreamed of waking to find her "nappy black hair" metamorphosed to a long blond bob because she felt life was better for a white girl than for a black girl (Franks, n.d.). Despite the odds, her grandmother instilled pride in Angelou with religion as an important element in their home. Maya Angelou contributed to black history by......

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Maya Angelou's former name was Marguerite Ann Johnson. Maya got the nickname from her older brother bailey, who had a speech issue and couldn't pronounce Marguerite. He started calling her Maya because he read a book on Mayan indians, and the name stuck (achievement.org/autodoc/page/ang0bio-1). Her parents divorced when she was only three years old, and she and her older brother Bailey were sent to live with their grandmother in Arkansas three years after Maya was born. Maya grew up in the south during a very racist period and the traditional african-american courtesy and respect . She had a hard young life, and writes in her autobiography, "I know why the caged bird sings" how she remembers being more literate than her own mother (Angelou 91). After living with her grandmother for a few years, which her and her brother would call "momma", Maya and Bailey......

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Emotionally, Marguerite Johnson was a sensitive child. Her feelings were easily hurt. She also felt racial discrimination from being in the South. She didn't have much confidence, and she believed (whole-heartedly) in GOD. She did not have enough love from her caregivers, as a child. At eight years old, she was raped. That event caused her to remain silent for five years; following the murder of her accused rapist. His death caused her to believe that her speaking her accusers' name caused his death. Marguerite Johnson was befriended by the kindness and generosity of a family friend, and the discovery of authors and poets helped her regain her voice.
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Maya Angelou
•Born: 4 April 1928
•Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
•Best Known As: Author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Name at birth: Marguerite Johnson
Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, was nominated for a National Book Award and made her a symbol of pluck and pride for African-American women. In the 1950s Angelou had been a dancer and stage actress, and she was active in the civil rights movement (she became a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, thanks to a request from Martin Luther King, Jr.). During the 1960s she spent five years in Africa, working as a journalist and a teacher. Angelou returned to the United States and in 1969 published I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. In 1972 she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her collection of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie. Since then, Angelou has continued teaching, writing, acting, producing, recording (she won Grammy Awards for the spoken word for the years 1993, 1995 and 2002) and collecting honorary degrees from across the United States. Since 1981 she has been the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. At Bill Clinton's request, Angelou wrote a poem -- On the Pulse of Morning -- for his 1993 inauguration as U.S. president.
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Maya Angelou is a well-known American author, especially
during the times of the civil rights movement which she was an
activist. Maya had a long career, which includes different works from
poetry, plays, screenplays for television and film, directing, acting,
and public speaking. She is a profound writer of poetry. Her style of
writing is geared for self-empowerment. To rise over all odds and to
take pride in who you really are.
She shows her honesty and emotions. Mostly her experiences
that she went through in life or read about. Most of her works flow
and rhyme well and usually very inspiring. Some of her poems are
even considered autobiographical kind of poems.
The style of Maya Angelou can range from complex symbolical
ideas to easy, straightforward concepts. Her style is like a story. The
vocabulary is usually easy to understand, and not too complicated.
Her works are not always conventional either. (Study World 1)
Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in
St. Louis. She was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She came
from a broken home. Angelou was raped at eight, and was an unwed
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mother at 16 years old (Williams 1).
Angelou is a poet, an author, a historian, an actress, a playwright,
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Maya Angelou is known as the “most visible black female autobiographer/poet.” She was born, Marguerite Ann Johnson, on April fourth, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she and her brother were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Seeing all the racial discrimination in the American south strengthened her passion for poetry, music, dance and performance. Maya writes about the struggles people face, racism and freedom. At age eight, Angelou went mute for five years when she believed that her words killed a man. These years of silence helped develop her extraordinary memory, love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her. At age fourteen, Angelou dropped out of high school to be San Francisco’s first African-American cable car conductor. Maya returned to school, but became pregnant and graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son Guy. She left her home to raise her son as a single mother. During this time Angelou worked as a waitress, and a cook, to make a living for her and her son. When Martin Luther king Jr. was assassinated on her fortieth birthday, it left her devastated, but also determined to keep the civil rights movement going so everyone could have equality in the United States. The poem, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by the poet Maya Angelou, uses the following poetic devices: symbolism and lyric that give meaning to poem. The first......

...Maya Angelou is not only an author; she is a poet, playwright, screen producer, and many more. Growing up, Maya’s life was filled with ups and downs. In spite of her trials and tribulations, Maya Angelou has found a way to accomplish many goals. Throughout her career, she has not only written books, but she as acted in and directed several plays, lived in Ghana for four years, raised a child by herself, and worked as hard as he could to give her and child the best life.
Maya Angelou, Marguerite Johnson, was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri (Gale Group 4). She initially lived in St. Louis with her mother, Vivian, who was a nurse, and a maid, and her father Barly, a doorkeeper and navel dietician (Gale Group 4). As she was growing up, Maya’s mother never cared for her as a mother should. Often, her mother would leave her and her brother and would not return for days at a time. This, of course gave Maya no other choice but to take full responsibility for the household and her brother. When she was thirteen, Angelou’s mother decided to leave St. Louis without telling her. It was on that day that she went to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Maya’s grandmother was a very strict lady and made sure that Maya and her brother would grow up to be the best people they could be.
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...Maya Angelou's Early Life
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928. Maya and
her brother, Bailey, moved to live with their grandmother after the divorce of their parents. The move to
Stamps, Arkansas forced Maya to encounter much racism. Despite prevalent racism in town, Maya's
grandmother always made sure to teach Maya and her brother strong values.
At the age of eight, Maya's mother, Vivian, took the children back to live with her in St. Louis.
Shortly after the move, Maya was raped by her mother's live-in boyfriend. This traumatic event caused
Maya to become mute for a period of time afterward and withdraw from family and friends. It also
created a major rift between Maya and Vivian. At thirteen, Maya moved to San Francisco where she
attended George Washington High School and received a scholarship to the California Labor School for
dance and drama classes. Maya was one of the only black students in her school and found life in San
Francisco intriguing and liberating.
Maya's Young Adult Life
She became pregnant with her son, Clyde, at age seventeen. Maya had just earned her high
school diploma and her dreams of attending college were fleeting. Instead, she took various waitressing
and cooking jobs and was even the madam of a brothel. Maya yearned for stardom in her young adult
years, but her dancing career did not take off. Soon, Maya figured out that she needed to find a......